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Born #onthisday, Russian avant-garde painter #WassilyKandinsky, famed for producing one of the first purely abstract pieces. Shop Kandinsky inspired art online now to bring a splash of colour into your home > https://t.co/ZHFrrOnKxL
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife’ – Jane Austen was born #onthisday in 1775. These illustrations to Pride and Prejudice were made by Helen Binyon in the 1930s
#WassilyKandinsky
#BornOnThisDay #OnThisDay
(16.12.1866 - 13.12.1944)
"Komposition IV", 1911
"Komposition VIII", 1923
"Komposition X", 1939
Happy belated birthday Jane Birkin 🎂. Painting I finished yesterday. Many of her films can be found on @Fandor #JaneBirkin #OnThisDay #BornOnThisDay #Painting #Art #French #Film
This fashionable portrait by #GeorgeRomney, born #onthisday in 1734, achieved a world-record price for any work of art when auctioned in London in 1913.
#OnThisDay in 1908, Boule presented his study on the La Chapelle Neanderthal to Académie des Sciences. He confirmed that Neanderthals were a separate species of human. https://t.co/prjnIXOcCB
#OnThisDay in 1624 Lord Howard of Effingham, Lord High Admiral and C-in-C of the English Fleet during the Spanish Armada in 1588, died.@RoyalNavy @AdmPhilipJones
Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was born #onthisday in 1863. His painting "Starry Night" represents the coastline at Åsgårdstrand, a small beach resort south of Oslo where Edvard Munch spent his summers from the 1880s onward. https://t.co/FjCZE8og7L
#OnThisDay in 1863 Edvard Munch was born. Check out the best places to see his work via @CultureTrip #otd #EdvardMunch https://t.co/kZQVYzBK5U
Norwegian artist, #EdvardMunch was born #onthisday in 1863. Here is his woodcut 'Two People - the Lonely Ones' (1899) - inspired by the hopeless love of his friend, Jappe Nilssen, for Oda, the wife of the painter Christian Krohg. https://t.co/0hT4PpHHQt
Anthony van Dyck died #OnThisDay in 1641. See his imposing double portrait of 'Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart' in Room 21: https://t.co/rRqWf5gDx6
Did you know that #Babar creator Jean de Brunhoff was born #OnThisDay in 1899? Are you a Babar fan?
#OnThisDay 8th December 1980 the world lost John Lennon - but his art lives on. #FridayFeeling #Imagine
"Imagine all the people, Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer, But I'm not the only one"
Happy birthday Lucian Freud, born #onthisday in 1922.
Freud's self portrait will be on show in All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life, opening at Tate Britain on 28 Feb 2018: https://t.co/Vcznk1xTYl
#OnThisDay in 1979 The eradication of the smallpox virus was certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction. #MuseumFacts
'Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.' .... RIP John Lennon. Shot and killed on this day in 1980 in New York City. #FactOfTheDay #JohnLennon #Beatles #OnThisDay #QuoteOfTheDay https://t.co/8q4XxJahLe
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died #onthisday in 1791. #twitterstorians
Le opere di Otto Dix, nato il #2dicembre 1891 sono uno specchio pieno di emozioni e di sentimenti forti, dagli orrori della guerra, ai sopravvissuti e mutilati sempre crudi e di denuncia sociale.
#artintweet #art #onthisday #pittura
🎂 #GameAnniversary #OnThisDay 🎂
Released in Europe 🇪🇺 17 years ago today
Shenmue (Sega Games)
https://t.co/H4fwhQEOTa
"Just one more lamprey... Aaargh!" #OnThisDay 1135 King Henry I died after ignoring doctor's orders. https://t.co/U100Xwc06U